Hydrus - Voice Contributor
Job description
Description
About the Project
We are looking for native-level Spanish (Spain) speakers with professional voice recording experience to join the Hydrus Project.
The project consists of two scheduled recording sessions from their own home studio.
Because the recordings go straight into production, the audition validates two things equally: your voice and your recording environment.
What You'll Do
Audition with two 30 second samples using your home studio setup
Once approved, you will complete two scheduled recording sessions of approximately 4 hours each
Participate in natural conversation, prompted discussion, and scripted customer-service scenarios
Record from your own home studio setup across both sessions
Your Recording Environment
An external microphone: A separate, dedicated microphone is absolutely required see below.
A dry room: Your voice should sound close and clear, with no echo or hollow, distant quality. Untreated rooms with bare walls, hard floors, and high ceilings usually fail.
A quiet room: No HVAC hum, fans, traffic, appliances, or household noise during recording.
Minimum Required Gear
Dynamic Mics (best for untreated rooms): Shure SM58, Shure MV7 / MV7+, RODE PodMic / PodMic USB, or similar.
Condenser mic (great in a treated room): RODE NT-USB Mini, Blue Yeti / Yeti Orb, Blue Bluebird, Blue Baby Bottle, or similar.
Room Treatment: Your recording space should produce studio quality sound samples isolation shields, sound absorbing pads, etc.
Immediately rejected: built-in laptop microphones, phone mics, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached mics, headsets, and gaming headsets.
Technical Specification
You must be able to produce audio samples in the meeting the following specifications:
WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, no compression. Free software such as Audacity can produce this. If you cannot export in this format, please do not apply this level of technicality is required for this role.
Who We're Looking For
Native-level Spanish (Spain) speaker
A natural, authentic, friendly, conversational customer-service speaking style
A dry, quiet home recording space and a professional microphone, as described above
Good background, but not required: Podcasters, youtubers, streamers, recording artists, voice-over actors, etc. anyone who has experience recording audio in a high-quality home studio
Commitment & Compensation
Estimated time: approximately 8 hours total across two scheduled sessions
Compensation: $40.00 USD per hour
Job Reference: #LI-JC1
Hydrus
Voice Contributor at Welo Global.
About the role
This role recruits native-level Spanish (Spain) speakers with professional voice recording experience for the Hydrus Project. The project involves two scheduled recording sessions conducted from your own home studio. Your audition and the final recordings must meet specific technical standards for both your voice and your recording environment.
Key facts
What you'll do
- Submit two 30-second audio samples using your home studio setup for initial audition.
- Complete two scheduled recording sessions lasting approximately four hours each upon approval.
- Engage in natural conversation, prompted discussion, and scripted customer-service scenarios.
- Record audio in your own home studio across both sessions.
- Use an external microphone that meets the project requirements.
- Ensure your room is dry, with a voice that sounds close and clear, free of echo or hollow distance.
- Work in a quiet room without HVAC hum, fans, traffic, appliances, or other household noise.
Requirements
- Native-level Spanish (Spain) speaker.
- A natural, authentic, friendly, conversational customer-service speaking style.
- A dry, quiet home recording space.
- An external microphone, specifically a dynamic mic such as Shure SM58, Shure MV7/MV7+, RODE PodMic, or similar.
- Alternatively, a condenser microphone such as RODE NT-USB Mini, Blue Yeti/Yeti Orb, Blue Bluebird, Blue Baby Bottle, or similar, provided the room is treated.
- Room treatment materials to achieve studio-quality sound samples, such as isolation shields or sound-absorbing pads.
- Immediate rejection of built-in laptop microphones, phone microphones, AirPods, Samsung Buds, headphone-attached microphones, headsets, and gaming headsets.
- The ability to produce audio samples in WAV format, 24-bit, 48 kHz, with no compression using free software such as Audacity.
Nice to have
- Background as a podcaster, YouTuber, streamer, recording artist, or voice-over actor with experience recording audio in a high-quality home studio.
Skills & tools
- Microphone (external)
- Room treatment materials
- Audio recording software